Cultural well-being strategies and policies

We have prepared a 2006 - 2016 Long Term Council / Community Plan as required by the Local Government Act 2002.  We have named our Plan the Central Hawke's Bay Community Plan.  It sets the direction for Central Hawke's Bay over the next ten years. 

Community planning is about the local community determining its future.  Emphasis has been placed on the community views, on its local points of difference and getting opportunities that will ensure the community remains an attractive and desirable place in which to live, work and play.

Council has endorsed a destination management approach for Central Otago.  Destination management is essentially about communities and cross agency co-operation in areas of planning and environmental management, provision of visitor information centres, management of infrastructure, marketing and site management. 

Grants Policy for Community Grants, Cultural Grants, Heritage Grants, Events Grants, Discretionary Grants, Creative Communities Grants and SPARC Grants.

When Council sought the community's aspirations for the district and the priorities of actions over the next 10 years back in 2003, one of the concerns raised was the need to protect heritage sites from inappropriate development and population pressure.

The community's preferred outcome was to see heritage valued and celebrated and to be an integral part of Central's identity.

Long Term Council Community Plan

Central Otago District Council, Sport Otago, Public Health South and the Central Otago Principals Association (stakeholders) have worked collaboratively to develop a physical activity strategy for the Central Otago District as defined by the District Council boundaries. The project is being largely funded by SPARC.

The community has identified ways in which this vision can be achieved.

The Chatham Islands Council's community outcomes consider social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of the community and reflect local priorities.